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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in online education are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these important new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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